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Some purchases I spend ages deliberating over and some I just pick up randomly, on a whim or because of a recommendation. I think Sekkisei was a recc from AB Muse and it was a great choice for me. This is a truly delightful product, fragrance aside, and could be the ideal day moisturiser, although it seems like it may break me out.  I say may break me out because it could be user error.  Cost $3ish for 6g, mini pots from TK. Although I'm pretty sure it's out of stock now.  Packaging It's a jar, my least favourite cream packaging but what can you do. A jar is probably the best packaging for a cream, given you can be sure you've used it to the last drop, although a squeeze tube is just easier in my opinion. Pretty much everything comes in jars and a squeeze tube for a gel cream is probably madness because how would you consistently squeeze out the right amount and also I often don't pay attention to how much I'm squeezing, resulting in using too much. My face do...

This will feel like a big of a negative review but it'll get better! Cost  $27.44 from KoreaDepart (plus shipping, no taxes) Introduction I got this to do a full routine of The Black range and hoping it would help with redness, like The Black Serum originally did. I thought using all four products - essence, serum, moisturiser and cream - would be delightful as a routine. I suspected that the products wouldn't be siliconey enough to help with sleep creases, knowing the cream was actually quite light.  And knowing the essence would be watery, I potentially felt that I would be annoyed by it because I find watery products annoying to apply and take ages to absorb. Packaging It's interesting that the serum, even the 60ml, comes in a plastic bottle, where as the essence and moisturiser are both glass bottles. The essence has an open top with one of those plastic covers so it doesn't just pour out but it does still just pour out because it's super watery. Regardless of t...

Image of Sooryehan The Black Fine Shampoo (right) and Black Fine Treatment (left). Gold fading into black ombre colours, the shampoo has a pump and the treatment has a flip top Before I continue with this review, I am in the process of mentally getting to grips with not purchasing any more LG products - AB Muse makes a very eloquent argument on the blog about the greenwashing of their AI marketing announcement and the effect it'll have on human employment: https://www.abmuse.net/2024/11/lg-h-using-ai-for-marketing-and-why-i.html I'll keep posting reviews because almost all of my core routine products are LG (I have a lot to go through before I start replacing them) and you, dear Reader, may want to use them. No judgement and the purpose of this blog was to review these products so I'll keep posting. I'm sure other companies make questionable choices and it's all about the money money money nom nom nom, and they may be using AI but we just don't know about it, et...

But with positive results! Yes, this demands a slightly clickbaity beginning and spoiling the ending at the start because it's exciting when things start working :) And it's doubly excellent when one's skincare suppositions are proved correct. Texture is key (but not only that) In my last post on moisturiser texture, I talked about the dramatic effects from Whoo's Cheongidan cream on my worsening sleep creases. I clearly toss and turn during the night and now my skin becomes furrowed between the bottom of my eyebag and top of my cheekbone. Not so much on the left side but the right, which - to add insult to injury - has much deeper fine lines under my eyes as well. I could get one of those body pillows but I prefer not to do so and I can't sleep on my back due to snoring. Given the Whoo's cream helps reduce the creases, there's clearly something that works that doesn't involve me changing my sleeping arrangements. But of course the full size is not on...

In honour of my panic that it had been reformulated, here is my update post! Whilst being a very nice product that I enjoy using no end, the headline of this update is that I forgot that extracts could deliver specific results. The Black Serum has a variety of anti-inflammatory ingredients and that is likely to be the reason that it calms down redness for me. Why only The Black Serum works but nothing else must be down to the ingredients it has that other products don't or higher quality extracts than previous things I've tried with some of the same* The rest of this post is about why I'd forgotten this key fact. *A note: going back through Reddit posts, I've claimed a couple of times that other things have calmed my skin! However, a combination of drier skin, hard water and medication have totally borked my skin so now it's just The Black Serum (or other products from the range in conjunction with the serum). Highlights from the last review and link Link to Soorye...

Following Odile's recent posts on retinol, and my general wish to switch everything to luxe, i ordered both Isa Knox products (partly because they were the cheapest and the LG heritage always grabs me). You can also find the ingredients in links on Odile's post so I won't duplicate them here. Link to Odile's main retinol post Link to Odile's post on the Isa Knox Age Focus Prime Wrinkle For All Serum  Link to Odile's post on the Isa Knox Age Focus Prime Polynoid Wrinkle Cream   Thankfully TesterKorea comes through again with sample options of both. The serum has cedrol in addition to the other ingredients. I've been very pleased when something I already use or happen to have purchased has cedrol as it's one of the key ingredients in the Whoo lip cerin. Link to my review of the Whoo lip cerin  if you want to read more about it. Is cedrol the thing that makes the lip cerin so effective? I don't know but it's an interesting ingredient and it's a ...